Legal Opinion
United States v. Rafael Santana and Francis Fuentes
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided September 16, 1993No. 93-1393PublishedCited by 181 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SELYA, Circuit Judge.
In the six decades since Justice Roberts noted that “[s]ociety is at war with the criminal classes,” Sorrells v. United States, 287 U.S. 435, 453, 53 S.Ct. 210, 216, 77 L.Ed. 413 (1932) (Roberts, J., dissenting), hostilities have escalated and armaments have grown more destructive. Here, the government’s weapon was 13.3 grams of heroin, 92% pure, delivered into the stream of commerce as part of an effort to gain the confidence of suspected drug traffickers. The district judge decided that the government’s guerilla tactics impermissibly endangered civilians and dismissed…
2Cases cited54 opinions
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3Cited by181 opinions
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